ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the affective intensity generated by human-human relationships and human-nonhuman relationships focusing on a public procurement experience in the city of Mar del Plata. Following the flat or rhizomatic ontology that De Landa adapts from Deleuze, it considers social categorizations of the subjects that participate in this assemblage of public and private associations. The chapter specifically focuses on the affective interactions with other humans and/or other types of materialities during the entire public procurement experience. It employs real-time ethnographic elements, walking through dairy production and distribution to various retirement community centers. The chapter shows how a public policy emerges from the cooperative's private need to sell and the public officials' need to demonstrate equitable and sovereign policies. Finally, it reflects on the importance of affects and intersubjectivities for transforming the world. The factory workers' dedication is created by their affect for their workplace, the recognition of the civil society that supports them economically and symbolically.
